CVE-2025-53583

HIGH 8.1

WordPress Employee Spotlight Plugin <= 5.1.1 - PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

CVSS Score

8.1

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Spotlight employee-spotlight allows Object Injection.This issue affects Employee Spotlight: from n/a through <= 5.1.1.

CWE	CWE-502
Vendor	emarket-design
Product	employee spotlight
Published	Aug 28, 2025
Last Updated	Apr 28, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Affected Versions

emarket-design / Employee Spotlight

0 ≤ 5.1.1

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

patchstack.com: https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/employee-spotlight/vulnerability/wordpress-employee-spotlight-plugin-5-1-1-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Credits

Martino Spagnuolo (r3verii) | Patchstack Bug Bounty Program